Compaq WIFI card not recognized by FC4
Lovell Mcilwain
lovell.mcilwain at gmail.com
Thu Jul 7 00:49:22 UTC 2005
I got ndiswrapper installed using the directions you gave me, thanks for all the help. I was close
to home plate when I ran into fatal error. Its not as bad as you think although does sound scary.
So I followed the directions for installed the drivers for ndiswrapper so you can see my steps that
I took:
Dowloaded the windows drivers for the wifi card
Extracted the .exe file with command cabextract file.exe
cd’ into the file that I extracted and run the command:
"ndiswrapper -i file.inf"
Got the following response:
Installing bcmwl5
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Ran the command "ndiswrapper -l" to check if things were ok
Got the following response:
Installed ndis drivers:
bcmwl5 driver present, hardware present
ran the command "modprobe ndiswrapper" to load the drivers/firmware
I get the following response:
[root at Whistler broadcomwifidriver]# modprobe ndiswrapper
FATAL: Module ndiswrapper not found.
Can anyone help me get past this fatal error? Is there another way I can load this or even see if
what I have is correct?
Thanks
Jonathan Berry wrote:
> On 7/6/05, Lovell Mcilwain <lovell.mcilwain at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Hello all,
>>
>>I am new to fedora core (From Mandrake) and I just installed FC4 on my compaq Presario R3000. It
>
>
> These might interest you then:
> http://lists.pcxperience.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxr3000
> http://prinsig.se/weekee/
>
>
>>doesn't seem to be able to recognize my wireless card that I have in it. I posted some questions on
>> linuxquestions.org and they let me know the FC doesn't support my card so that I would have to use
>>ndiswrapper along with the windows drivers that came with it.
>
>
> That is correct, the broadcom chipset does not have open-source
> drivers. It does work well with ndiswrapper, though. Are you using
> 32- or 64-bit? The R3000 comes in several flavors.
>
>
>>Apparently before I get started I need to have the kernel source files which after reading for a bit
>>Fedora doesn't ship with.
>
>
> No you do not. You only need the headers.
>
>
>>Can anyone tell me if there is a way that I can use YUM to download the kernel source files that I need?
>
>
> yum install kernel-devel
>
>
>>if not:
>>
>>Is there an rpm somewhere that I can use to install? I would really hate to have to do this manually.
>
>
> Compiling ndiswrapper from source is fairly painless, but if you want,
> Livna has an RPM package for it. Just get the appropriate Livna
> release RPM at (choose your arch):
> http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/4/i386/RPMS.lvn/livna-release-4-0.lvn.2.4.noarch.rpm
> http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/4/x86_64/RPMS.lvn/livna-release-4-0.lvn.2.4.noarch.rpm
>
> install it, and then something like:
>
> yum install ndiswrapper
>
> should do it. I've just compiled it from source.
>
>
>>Thanks in advance,
>
>
> Jonathan
>
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